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Retired armor Soldier • British-American • History nerd, esp. the WW1 BEF • No coffee too strong • Go Army! • Death before dismount • Trans rights = human rights • LotR fan • sic semper tyrannis • If you ain’t cav…
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Winger was the first Soldier to drive the EM-50 into urban combat. So yeah, I wish I could’ve been him.
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I don’t even need to type the name…
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Looking good!
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👍🏼Yes sir. The was the logpac before we crossed phase line smash onto Objective Norfolk.
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Yes! It’s hard to get a sense of how big some of these a/c were. I saw somewhere the F-4 had a higher practical payload than the B-17.
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I feel for you. My dear friend Putzi passed away in January at almost 15. The way he looks in this photo: calm, friendly, wise… that was his way of being. I miss him every day.
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#iykyk
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Thanks so much for sharing this. The memorial looks beautifully cared for.
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I was talking with a historian several years ago about the Bulge. We were looking at a photo of a column of American armor, and I said that every tank had an entire crew you couldn’t see. He replied, “I never thought of that.” So I made this meme.
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Looks like a CH-46 Sea Knight aka “Phrog”. I flew in them a long time ago.
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That’s a beautiful photo! This was the gloaming last evening through the trees beside my house in Oregon.
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What a beautiful perspective!
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Yeah, no kidding!😂
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Yes, this is what happens when our leader (I’m a yank) has less presidential knowledge than any one of the Three Stooges.
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Because demanding unconditional surrender from our enemies has worked out for us so well and frequently since WW2 ended, right?
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I always defer to the closest barracks lawyer, plus I love the tank turret on your profile.
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1,600 miles, but we’re only 100 roentgens from Hanford. 😎
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She’s 5’10” and her hands aren’t that small. 😂
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I want to laugh because they’re so totally incompetent, but I can’t. We are well and truly in the hands of a maniac.
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Your thing-y is not big. This Oregon slug next to my wife’s hand, that’s big.
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Tanks make squeaky noises when they’re moving.
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My God! What a beautifully written, tragic story. You have to wonder how many times family members across the globe have uttered the horrible phrase, “He was never the same after he came home from the war.”
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Don’t know if it’s fortunate or not, but we only get to have one army. It was out on the street in DC on Friday. Lumps, bumps and warts, it’s a uniquely, sorta out of step diddy bopping American Army. Our Army. My Army.
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I’ve been around for almost 66 years. I don’t know that I agree with this view. The Republicans have definitely been radicalized. But it’s more about Fox News, communist-like party discipline on the right and dark money than anything Democrats have done or not done.
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Die Grenztruppen waren mir gut bekannt, denn ich diente vor der Wende an der deutsch-deutscher Grenze. Dieses Darstellung (wie auf dieser Plakate) als Freund und Helfer des Volkes war völlig Falsch. Von A bis O war die DGP bzw. GT eine Parteitruppe obwohl nicht alle Freiwillig dienten.
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I go back a long way with the Army. I remember the Army’s 200th birthday in 1975. My dad and mom were both stationed in DC. We got tickets to the celebration, which was held in the old Capital Center. It was understated, classy and meaningful.
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Very evocative images.
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Just the other day I was reading about a BEF officer who went out at night to collect ID discs into no man’s land. Coming back to the trench, he was killed by a direct hit by an artillery round. Nothing was left.
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Allons!
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Best post on this topic since the parade, also the one that makes the most sense.
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I live in the US and just received my copy of “Ring of Fire” a couple of days ago.
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Concur. Anytime a big unit marches without a drummer, they end up marching way too many steps a minute. Marching in a street parade like yesterday is something most Soldiers will never do.
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I doubt any unit marched past the reviewing stand at route step. I heard some cadence calling, but I think it must’ve been hard to hear with the music blaring on the PA. The bands were too spaced out to stay in cadence with the drums and all the vehicle noise would’ve drowned it out anyway.
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22 years of service. Retired as a 1SG. American Soldiers do formations, changes off command, marching to the hard stand, etc. I watched the BD parade and the D&C was all over the place. Some units clearly practiced more than others. Some of what I saw was cringe worthy.
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So vergesslich, ihr von der SED. Tag der NVA und der Grenztruppen feiern war aber okay, eh? Ich hoffe der Kreml dreht euch bald den Geldhahn zu oder das SED Vermögen geht euch bald aus.
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Did ya’ll use carbon paper a lot? The US Army went thru pallets of the stuff.